Dear I(One) and II (Two): What happens when you defy your mother? Does she melt, like the Wicked Witch of the whichever? Does she cry? Pout? Rage at you? Get Ultra Rational and use that "you're a simpleton but I'll set you straight" voice of hers until your ears bleed and you give up?
Because she's not going to like everything you do, you know. and she is going to find out - or try like hell. She views you as her property. Even though she has told lawyers, judges, mediators and counselors that she would never force her boys to do anything they didn't want to do, that's not really true, is it? The summers you didn't want to do junior lifeguards anymore, One. Screwing up your perspective on soccer, which you really love, Two, by confusing you about tryouts for the big kids' team, so you didn't give it your best shot and didn't get chosen for the team. And of course she never makes you go to the dentist or the doctor or to visit your ferrety little cousin when you'd rather go to your best friend's house and ride bikes. And she wouldn't think of making you do chores, would she? But I guess if you objected, said you didn't want to do any of those onerous tasks, she'd tell you that you obviously didn't know what you wanted. Too bad she couldn't use the same line of reasoning when it came to your visits with your father.
Two, I've had the feeling, over the years, that you'd be pleased to have a visiting relationship with your father. It's rumored that you have said as much to your best friend and his father, but acknowledged that your mother and brother would kill you if you tried. I know they're both bigger than you are, but that won't always be the case. There is such a thing as a telephone - in fact, I think you have one of your very own. You wouldn't even have to call, just text, if your mother monitors your phone contacts. Fact? She wouldn't kill you. You're half of her meal ticket.
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